Alan Rickman's Lesser Known Roles - Help, I'm a Fish!

[{"id":1,"type":"text","position":0,"block_data":{"block_content":"Many people remember Alan Rickman for his sublime performance as Professor Snape in the Harry Potter series and rightfully so. Rickman expertly portrayed Snape’s snide and intimidating presence which beautifully masked his underlying nurturing nature.\n\nHowever, my first encounter with Alan Rickman was through the English dub of a little Danish-German-Irish animated film called Help, I’m a Fish! (or Hjælp, jeg er en fisk in Danish)."}},{"id":2,"type":"photo_from_gallery","position":1,"block_data":{"photo_id":171,"photo_url":"https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/echoleft-production/images/2daab0f62ab384ff41632bb3d7d6cc84e8e17f0a/original.jpg?1461674561"}},{"id":3,"type":"text","position":2,"block_data":{"block_content":"I lucidly remember getting this film on VHS as a gift for Christmas. In this film, released in 2000, Rickman voices the main antagonist Joe. After finding a magic potion that gives him human-level intelligence, Joe seeks to mass produce the potion and become hyper-intelligent in order to rule their entire ocean.\n\nThis film was like a combination of Finding Nemo and Shark Tale before those films even existed! Rickman gave an excellent performance, his smooth and confident dialogue lent itself perfectly to the arrogance of the antagonist and his brains-over-brawn attitude. \n\nRickman also had his own solo song in the film, which was very reminiscent of Jeremy Irons’ striking performance as Scar in The Lion King;"}},{"id":4,"type":"video","position":3,"block_data":{"video_id":"giVEorC-NOc","video_source":"youtube"}},{"id":5,"type":"text","position":4,"block_data":{"block_content":"To this day, I still love to go back and watch this film now and then. It’s definitely one of my favourite, traditionally animated, non-Disney films and Alan Rickman is a huge part of that."}}]